Monique Woodard, one of tech's few black female venture capitalists, says some diversity efforts risk creating a 'separate but equal' mentality :'Black entrepreneurs don't need a separate water fountain'
'A failure that can't be donated away'
But venture capitalists could drive even more meaningful change by acting in their capacity as investors, and writing checks for often-overlooked black founders who enter the startup ecosystem with more barriers to accessing seed capital from family and friends. Venture capitalists opening up their calendars for office hours with black founders should also be ready to offer more than their time, Woodard added.
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